If you don't believe it you won't understand it.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.

Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.

Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.

Sin is to a nature what blindness is to an eye. The blindness of an evil or defect which is a witness to the fact that the eye was created to see the light and, hence, the very lack of sight is the proof that the eye was meant... to be the one particularly capable of seeing the light. Were it not for this capacity, there would be no reason to think of blindness as a misforture.